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More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any
other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably
been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of ___1____
the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh ___2___
deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the ___3___
disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the __4____
global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With
occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily __5___
through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the
introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the
trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed
to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers ___6__
declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of __7___
infections and deaths started to pick up again around the
world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in ___8___
many places where it had never been away, it grew better. ___9___
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7
billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer
from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was
falling, population growth kept the number of clinical
cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around ____10___
3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor
countries。
